Richard Bowdon records and performs original songs and covers, both as a solo artist and with his band No Worries, in the Raleigh/Durham Triangle area of central North Carolina.
2025 Album Release: The Good Book of Prine
This album includes nine of Prine’s songs I love to play the most, plus the title song, which I wrote in tribute of his whole amazing body of work. I produced and recorded the album in my home studio in North Carolina. I’m grateful to have seen and heard John Prine in person once in a while over the decades, including a magical, accidental night in Denver with Steve Goodman opening, and in Durham on his last Tree of Forgiveness tour in 2019. His songs are absolutely timeless … I’ll never get tired of them. He was in heaven before he died.
2024 Album Release: Songs I Learned at Kerrville
The ~30 festivals I attended at the Quiet Valley Ranch outside of Kerrville, Texas, between 1981 and 1999, had a major impact on my music and my life. On this album I cover my favorite songs by some of the many great songwriters I heard and/or met there.
- Two Strangers in Love for Tuesday Night by Carol Cardozo
- Full Moon in Austin by Toby Solomon
- What’s Wrong with This Picture? by Suzanne Sherwin, 1986 New Folk winner, main stage performer
- Eye of The Needle by Emilie Aronson, 1982 New Folk winner, main stage performer
- Jesus, Pride, And Dixie by Tim Henderson, 1977 New Folk winner, main stage performer
- Bridges by Bill Staines, main stage performer
- Twelve Disciples and Not For the Love I Can Take by Mike Cross, main stage performer
- Further and Further Away by Cheryl Wheeler, main stage performer
- Mary Ellen Carter and Tiny Fish for Japan by Stan Rogers, main stage performer
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Richard Bowdon, Singer-Songwriter 